social media, types of social media

1. MARIA STUDENTSOVA & MILISAV MILINKOVIC 2014
TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
1. Social Networks - Services that allow you
to connect with other people of similar
interests and background. Usually they
consist of a profile, various ways to interact
with other users, ability to setup
groups, etc. The most popular
are Facebook, LinkedIn, Gogle+, MySpace

3. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
 2. Bookmarking Sites - Services that allow
you to save, organize and manage links to
various websites and resources around the
internet. Most allow you to “tag” your links to
make them easy to search and share. The
most popular
are Delicious and StumbleUpon.

4. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
3. Social News - Services that allow people to
post various news items or links to outside
articles and then allows it’s users to”vote” on
the items. The voting is the core social
aspect as the items that get the most votes
are displayed the most prominently. The
community decides which news items get
seen by more people. The most popular
are Digg and Reddit.

5. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
4. Content Communities
Content communities offer users the ability to
share different types of media such as
text, photos, videos and PowerPoint
presentations. Some of the most popular
sites are: Pinterest, Flickr, Youtube and
Slideshare.

6. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
5. Microblogging - Services that focus on
short updates that are pushed out to anyone
subscribed to receive the updates. The most
popular is Twitter

7. 6 TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
6. Blog Comments and Forums - Online
forums allow members to hold conversations
by posting messages. Blog comments are
similar except they are attached to blogs and
usually the discussion centers around the
topic of the blog post. There are
MANY popular blogs and forums

8. CONCLUSION!
 Keep in mind that, while these are the 6
different types of social media, there can be
overlap among the various services. For
instance, Facebook has microblogging
features with their “status update”. Also,
Flickr and YouTube have comment systems
similar to that of blogs